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11. The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies

    Edited by Peter Howard, Ian Thompson, Emma Waterton

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    Landscape is a vital, synergistic concept which opens up ways of thinking about many of the problems which beset our contemporary world, such as climate change, social alienation, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity and destruction of heritage. As a concept, landscape does not respect...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
12. Handbook of China's Governance and Domestic Politics

    Edited by Chris Ogden

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    This Handbook looks at how China is governed, how its domestic political system functions and the critical issues that it currently faces. Governed by the world’s largest political party in the world’s longest-ruling Communist regime, China is undergoing a transitional period of rapid...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
13. The USA and Canada 2013

    15th Edition

    Edited by Europa Publications

    Series: The Europa Regional Surveys of the World

    Combining impartial analysis with reliable facts and figures, this fully revised and updated 15th edition provides up-to-date commentary on these vast North American nations. New for 2013: new essays examining US-Canadian integration, the USA vs China in the global economy and US defence policy...

    Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
14. The Far East and Australasia 2013

    44th Edition

    Edited by Europa Publications

    Series: The Europa Regional Surveys of the World

    This comprehensive survey, fully revised to reflect current economic and political developments, is an essential resource for the Asia-Pacific region. The 2013 edition includes: coverage of recent elections, including those in Taiwan, Mongolia, South Korea, Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea expert...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
15. Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2013

    13th Edition

    Edited by Europa Publications

    Series: The Europa Regional Surveys of the World

    Europa's comprehensive survey of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. New for 2013: a detailed discussion of the return to the Russian presidency of Vladimir Putin, and of political developments in Georgia and Ukraine in advance of their competitive parliamentary elections expanded directory...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
16. A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Nigel Ashford, Stephen Davies

    First published in 1991, this is a reissue of the pathbreaking Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought, the first book to examine the ideals and arguments produced by the intellectual traditions of both conservatism and classical liberalism. Covering the ideas of many...

    Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
17. Business and the Natural Environment

    Edited by Susse Georg, Andrew Hoffman

    Series: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

    Over the past four decades, the concept of corporate environmentalism has passed through multiple iterations. Prompted by landmark environmental events such the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), the Santa Barbara oil spill, the Cuyahoga River fire, Love Canal, Bhopal, the Exxon...

    Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
18. IBSS: Economics: 2011 Vol.60

    International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

    Edited by Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science

    Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
19. IBSS: Political Science: 2011 Vol.60

    International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

    Edited by The British Library of Political and Economic Science

    First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers and librarians in the social sciences worldwide.Key features:* Authority:...

    Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
20. Routledge Library Editions: Russell

    By Various

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

    Reissuing several works originally published between 1918 and 1985, Routledge Library Editions: Russell offers a selection of scholarship covering the life and theories of Bertrand Russell. Russell (1872-1970) is the twentieth century’s most important liberal thinker and probably its greatest...

    Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge